Discusses the offering of day-long sessions entitled "Science and Society" to high school students at Kansas State Teachers College with the purpose of increasing public understanding of science. Included is a brief description of laboratory experiments carried out in the sessions. (CC)

Thirty-six mildly and moderately retarded sheltered workshop adolescent and adult clients learned to assemble a 12-piece unit for which the parts were color coded. (Author/DB)

This report of a conference for school administrators and media staff provides the text of the keynote address presented by Evelyn Daniel, as well as reports from small group sessions on the following topics: (1) policy making and budget setting; (2) centralized technical processing or commercially available technical services; (3) cable…

The role of the State Library Association in developing continuing education opportunities for librarians is discussed. Library standards usually specify a trained and competent staff; to maintain appropriate levels requires a well organized continuing education program. The return of librarians to higher education is not advocated, but a concern…

This final report summarizes the activities of Project Environmental Studies Program (ESP), a program designed to provide environmental education resources to teachers in the forty-nine Texas counties that make up Educational Personnel Development Consortium D. The project involved selected teachers in the formulation of a model for the…

Most teachers of adult professionals have been teachers of a younger student population. The characteristics of adult learners and their learning process necessitates other considerations in the designing of learning experiences. Additionally, the content to be learned and the responsibilities of the teacher are essential considerations in…

The project's activities, which were a series of six workshops conducted to disseminate career education information to educational staff in the New Hampshire seacoast area, are contained in this document. Part 1 describes a series of 2-hour teacher workshops conducted in four different locations on the seacoast by active career education…

Examined in the doctoral dissertation research was the effectiveness of a humane value activity oriented summer program to increase IQ scores and improve behaviors of 40 educable mentally retarded (EMR) children between 6 and 12 years of age. Teachers of the experimental group participated in a 10-day workshop on ways to incorporate the humane…

The parent component of the Austin Early Childhood Special Education Program is described. Goals of the program are seen to include providing parents with emotional support, knowledge, and skill development. Intake, needs assessment, counseling, home visits, parent conferences, and training workshops for parents are considered. Nearly half of the…

On the basis of an instrument designed to detect changes in teachers' attitudes as a result of a drug education course, trial results on 200 teachers indicate the instrument does measure changes in attitude. These changes reflect a move from punitive to rehabilitative measures in response to major drug incidents. (Author)

The authors discuss the effects a USSR visit had on their pre-set educational stereotypes. (ND)

For teaching medical students how to use problem-oriented medical records the authors devised teaching case material and two instructional formats (self-instructional and workshop) which were used for second-year medical students, then conducted a study which showed that all student groups attained an acceptable performance level regardless of…

Factors were examined that freshmen, undecided as to college major and career direction, frequently cited as being important in their career planning. (Author)